Show widen widening ing scope of chinese tion j van vancouver couver B C acting upon the request of the chinese of vancouver the dominion government by an or der of the council approved may 1909 has removed many of the restrictions strict ions imposed on chines immigration according to advices received saturday from ottawa the scope of the exempt class that is those cal nese who are not called upon to pay the head bead tax of has been greatly widened the new order it ie is claimed eo so widens the scope u of the chinesa immigration act of 1906 with amend ments of 1908 in regard to the privileged class of chinese that it cally leaves only we chinese laborers labor to pay the tax with the pauper the insane and the infectious still prohibited |